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I think you already KNOW. But sure, I'll answer = the dark theme jisu9 is 1.67 MB "big", the Win10-blue is 145 KB "mediium", the XP is 61 KB "small". No, there's no night-and-day difference from "debloating" the skin, but remember that the original intent was for a web browser that can be used with XP and only 2 GB RAM. Heck, I think we had users running with only 1 GB RAM. So yeah, we (plural) removed as much "bloat" as we could find. There's actually still some "bloat" that could be squeezed out, but who's counting. Definitely not desired. Will resolve in a "rebuild 3". That is one route to go. But in my past versions, I changed it to open a blank new tab and mouse-focus the address bar and I shall do that here also. Though it also indicates a missed "translation" error because Alt + Home and F1 are not both intended to open the home page in a new tab. Alt + Home opens the home page defined in the On Startup home page field, whether it is set to open on startup or not. Will resolve in "rebuild 3".

Agreed! I've always stated that this project was more of a stop-gap to "buy time" for XP users to migrate away from XP. Though even in 10, there are still some tasks that I prefer to throw at 360Chrome. I think that is MORE COMMON than most realize, especially here at MSFN. I cite Serpent builds. Let's be fair, there is a LOT that Serpent (my secondary on XP) simply can NOT do. But what it does do has a very large following despite what it cannot do. Unique traits of Serpent. Unique traits of New Moon. Unique traits of 360Chrome. We're all allowed to have our own favorite. I have history on my side, whenever newcomers ask "what browser is the best", my answer is always the same, though maybe worded differently each time. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "BEST" BROWSER. Personal choice. Personal choice. Personal choice. It's like the recent issues with Chase.com. I know that history well! I cancelled a Chase credit card when I could no longer access the site using Official Pale Moon. Little did I know that Chase was only the first chapter of that very long story. Members that have been around a while know about my water bill payment web site, lol. Surprisingly, 360Chrome can do all of those still to this day on XP. Thanks to conversations here at MSFN, of course (ie, polyfills).

Very very SLIGHT edge to 2044 being faster than 1030. These scores are on XP x64 with a 10yr old i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz with 16 GB RAM. I haven't ran the comparison on any of my older x86 machines because while scores will vary, the ORDER of which performs FASTER has always remained the same when comparing multiple machines.

As another member has often pointed out, NOW we know WHY several technical forums FORBID topics pertaining to "security" which only result in people "taking sides".

I certainly don't have the "answer". MSFN has some very biased "factions" where members take "sides" based solely on political viewpoints instead of technical merit. Not because politics are "allowed" but because we all know each other very well. We are all "family" and we know which "brothers" think this way and which "brothers" think that way. We've all seen the trolling of members for the sake of "liking" content of no underlying meaning other than a "member of their faction" made the post. https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/it-is-what-it-is/

My YouTube buttons are at the bottom. If you are referring to Widevine buttons, I'm not the one to ask, I do not "do" DRM via web browser. I have streaming "hardware" (Roku) for all my streaming needs and generally do not "stream" on a 21" computer monitor or 6" mobile phone when I have 50" and 55" TV's for that sort of activity.

That still points to a .css that v109 "can" perform and v86 can "not" perform.

Not a setting unless it's a special "player" with its own settings (like Flash used to have). Sounds to me like a .css type of position reset (I forget what the actual name is), something that was implemented post-v86 and that v86 would need a custom style sheet to resolve.

Can it be "bitmovin" demo? Is there another test that can be ran? I've never used DRM but the "bitmovin" is detecting Widevine on 360Chrome 2044 after manually adding it, but I'm on Win10 at the moment.

Regarding the user-shared dark theme files. I can report that I did not witness any Chinese IP Addresses being pinged when trial-running them for an hour or so last night. I obviously only used them as theme replacements within "rebuild 2". They are extremely "bloated" though and this thread is more about running a fully-functional debloated variation of 2044 versus running "upstream" 2044. Debloat will of course vary from one system to the next. WinXP x64 requires some "extra" dll's that are not required for Vista and higher. WinXP x86 can't use the dll's that are required for XinXP x64. Et cetera.

Your YouTube first-launch error cannot be related to gstatic. I also block gstatic systemwide and YouTube works fine for me. I do intentionally block the first-launch "suggested videos" or whatever they are called. All of the crap videos that load on first launch are intentionally not displayed to me, I never watch them and have no interest in the type of crap that the first-launch is POLLUTED with. I have zero interest in whatever the latest "viral" video is, I use YouTube for research or background music, zero interest in anybody's "five minutes of fame". I also intentionally disable any video classified as a "short".

You should be able to manually replace this file with the widevine folder. I have not tried.

Most likely "resources.pak". I turn the avatar off and eventually may remove the menu entry that allows it to be turned on.

Noted. From that, I guess I would have to assume that you "don't care" about telemetry (ie, you're using the original Chinese version) because you are blocking it by other means, is that a fair assumption? I'm not sure if you were here "back in the day", but the original Chinese version "scared the living s4*t out of MSFN Members and nobody would touch it with a ten foot pole. If it is working for you and your needs, that works for me. To the rest of us though, I think it fair that the dark theme files be thoroughly tested for telemetry by those of us not resorting to the blocks I have to assume you have in place.

I'm not convinced, not yet. Can you please run a network traffic monitor for TCP and UDP traffic while accessing the "manage search engines" page? Also, why does your search bar have Chinese and that "dot"? The "dot" is sometimes a "pixel" and sometimes shows up on various items of the "hamburger" menu - the pixel could be a 1x1 "fetched" from a Chinese IP Address. You should also monitor TCP and UDP traffic when "right-clicking" the Extensions icon and "left-clicking" the Extensions icon.

File sizes alone kind of tell me that they are likely the "original" files from upstream. So these will have the "360 Doctor", the "nocoin", the "buy today", among many other items still included. They shouldn't be "pulled" and used in my GUI, so limited harm of telemetry. I just generally remove them in conjuction with the GUI for an extra layer of telemetry prevention. The one example I know of is that the original dark theme pulled a Google icon from a Chinese IP Address whenever the "manage search engines" page was accessed, whether the default search engines were removed or not.

Cool and Thanks. I'll test from home. If there is telemetry, it would put me on Global IT's radar here at work so I only run things here at work that I'm 123.456% sure on.

I may do that eventually. Only because I do use 360Chrome on Win10 nowadays. But I wouldn't expect it any time soon.

That should be all you have to do. All it really changes is the title bar and minimize/maximize/restore/close buttons in the corner. The colors and icons were copied from an earlier version of Official Chrome, don't recall which version by chance. Here are the icons next to Official Ungoogled Chromium v114 so it appears the colors and icons may need updated. My Win10 setups do not use "dark mode" as dark mode gives me migraines and my eye doctor specifically states that dark mode computing has long term consequences on "rods and cones" of the retina. I do keep planning on making a "dark mode" skin because they are "popular" with the masses. But I also have been saying that for a couple years and I haven't done one yet, lol.

I won't be able to assist with this. I have zero "social media" accounts.

Thanks @mina7601. Apologies @Dietmar. I meant to upload with WebGL enabled by default. I've added a link for WebGL ENABLED (2nd link in first post on page 1). I've kept the link for WebGL DISABLED (1st link in first post on page 1).

Oops. I meant to upload with it ENABLED (you already saw the types of posts that hit the forum when it was just "assumed" to be enabled). But as in past builds, I will upload with it ENABLED because 7 times out of 10, when a web site is reported to "not work", it is because the user WANTS webgl ENABLED. I'll re-upload shortly.

Download link is on the first post of this thread, Page 1.

I just use the freebie v8.3.230608 and also use Ghidra v10.4 with Java v8 update 381. But I only use them to track down and isolate, I generally do all edits using HxD Hex Editor v2.4.0.0 x86.

You are in the wrong thread. about:config is not a Chrome thing, it's a Mozilla thing.